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Networks '97: MS presence gives UK Java Forum early rumpus
News Gittins also found an unlikely ally in Simon Phipps, programme manager for IBM's Java Technology Centre in Hursley Park, Winchester. Phipps, a confessed critic of Microsoft's Java tack, said he welcomed Microsoft's presence on the panel.
[June 25, 1997, 11:39]
Five years ago: Networks '97: MS presence gives UK Java Forum early rumpus
News Gittins also found an unlikely ally in Simon Phipps, programme manager for IBM's Java Technology Centre in Hursley Park, Winchester. Phipps, a confessed critic of Microsoft's Java tack, said he welcomed Microsoft's presence on the panel.
[June 24, 2002, 7:02]
Sun sheds light on its open-source future
News Sun UK's chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, has a high-profile role to play as the company aims to complete its move to 100 percent open software development. Echoing the words of James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language...
[April 29, 2008, 13:16]
Sun lays an open source licence to rest
News The server and software company is retiring its Sun Industry Standards Source Licence (SISSL), said Simon Phipps, director of Sun's Open Source Office. However, it's not been used by very many projects, and I don't think having it on Sun's list of...
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
Sun offers 'olive branch' to JBoss
News Sun last week offered JBoss the opportunity to license a set of testing tools to see if its software adheres to the Sun-sanctioned Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification, said Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist.
[March 21, 2003, 14:01]
Sun attacks Microsoft's 'open' efforts
News I want to make sure that when my grandchild studies history at university, that they can study source documents," said chief open source officer Simon Phipps. Phipps said that without a standard that remains stable and is widely adopted, documents...
[December 15, 2005, 8:20]
Consortium launched to support OpenDocument
News At the end of September, Sun's Simon Phipps posted in his blog that Sun was "already working on a move that raises the bar on what it means to create a truly open standard" and had sent OASIS "a new statement" saying that the company promised...
[October 10, 2005, 17:50]
Sun: We screwed up on open source
News Sun's chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, now concedes that was a period in which Sun "screwed up". Speaking in a recent interview with ZDNet.co.uk sister site Builder AU, Phipps explained the situation in which Sun finds itself: "Open-source...
[June 24, 2008, 10:41]
Sun exec rallies behind GPLv3
News Using his company's blog, Simon Phipps said that existing work towards GPLv3 had been "extraordinary and effective" and he said he is "frankly amazed by the criticisms". Phipps' comments are surprising given that when Sun decided to release Java...
[December 5, 2006, 16:46]
Sun: Open source is about self-interest
Talkback Simon Phipps has responded to this hack job of an article with the following: Was ZD's reporter even in the same room? In fact I said and routinely say nothing of the sort.an intentionally provocative and ill-informed article by a ZDNet reporter...
[June 29, 2006, 4:12]
Sun: Java to be 100 percent open by year's end
News Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer at Sun, said: "We released under the GPL everything we had the rights to release under the GPL, and that was last summer. That's going to be done within the next couple of months," said Phipps.
[June 23, 2008, 10:24]
Sun sets out expanded Linux range
News Sun is preparing a version of its Java Enterprise System -- a bundle of Java server software products -- for delivery on Linux about the middle of the year, said Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist at Sun.
[January 21, 2004, 9:15]
Apache founder joins OpenSolaris board
News As Sun promised, a minority of the board members are from Sun: Caspar Dik, a Solaris security programmer, and Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist. The board plans to conduct its work in the open, on public mailing lists, Phipps and...
[April 5, 2005, 10:20]
Sun open-sources mobile Java UI toolkit
Talkback It's certainly in keeping with the so-called 'adoption-led’ model of software distribution described by Sun's chief open-source officer Simon Phipps. This of course is another example of Sun's willingness to propagate the "Java is everywhere" theme.
[August 15, 2008, 17:50]
ISO endorses OpenDocument standard
News It would be hard for Microsoft to now interfere with the process," said Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open source officer, noting that the standard was ratified with no opposition. OpenDocument was ratified as a file format standard Tuesday night by an...
[May 4, 2006, 13:30]
Motorola chooses home for its open-source Java
News But Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open source officer, said on Wednesday that according to Sun and Apache, CDDL and Apache code may be intermingled. Motorola plans to build an open-source version of Java for gadgets such as mobile phones within the...
[November 2, 2006, 10:16]
ODF Summit joins open source activists
News The goal of the meeting, convened by Bob Sutor, IBM's vice-president of standards and open source, and Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open source officer, was to drive support for the standards "on a global level",
[November 10, 2005, 14:35]
Sun sets up open source office
News Simon Phipps, already Sun's open source officer, will lead the Open Source Office and report to Hal Stern, software chief technology officer. In an interview Thursday, Phipps said the move formalizes a role he's had in coordinating Sun's open...
[August 19, 2005, 11:15]
Sun: Open source Java won't change anything for developers
News Simon Phipps, speaking at a breakfast briefing in London on Tuesday, told Builder UK that he's long held the belief that coders working with Java don't care whether the source code is available for their platform or not.
[August 16, 2006, 13:05]
Sun: Open source is about self-interest
News Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference, Sun Microsystems' chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, said that open source had been focused for too long on sharing code instead of what he called "the enrichment of the commons".
[June 28, 2006, 14:10]
